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The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation
Downes, Larry - 2016
In 1999, the FCC largely deregulated middle-mile or "special access" enterprise communications services, resulting in explosive growth of new competitors using new technologies, including cable, fiber-optics, and high-speed Ethernet loops. But in recent years the agency has expressed increased...
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Network Neutrality and Foreclosing Market Exchange : Transaction Cost Analysis
Ford, George S. - 2013
content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711484
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158085
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Roaming and investments in the mobile internet market
Stühmeier, Torben - 2012
networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due … cost regulation of roaming charges. Otherwise, if MNOs are free to collaborate on investments, they set higher investment …. Furthermore, the paper discusses effects of the roaming charge regulation on roaming quality and MNOs' coverage. -- mobile …
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The Identification and Measurement of Market Power and Entry Barriers in Markets Featuring 'Platform' Businesses
Downes, Larry - 2019
In response to the increasing popularity and economic impact of companies in the Internet ecosystem, the Federal Trade Commission is being implored with vocal but factually vacant calls to revisit its approach to antitrust, and in particular market power, barriers to entry and anti-competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892718
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Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom About Mergers and Consumer Welfare in a Converging Internet Marketplace
Frieden, Rob - 2020
This paper identifies substantial flaws in how U.S. government agencies and courts assess the impact of proposed mergers by firms using broadband networks to reach consumers. Based on current market definitions, consumer impact assessments and economic doctrine, antitrust enforcement agencies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090155
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Input-Quality Sabotage and the Welfare Consequences of Parity Rules
Reitzes, James D.; Woroch, Glenn - 2008
We analyze the welfare effects of parity rules, prevalent in telecommunications and other regulated industries, that force a vertically-integrated input monopolist to treat its own downstream affiliate and downstream competitors comparably in terms of input price and quality. When input pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026427
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Input Quality Sabotage and the Welfare Consequences of Parity Rules
Reitzes, James D. - 2012
We analyze the welfare effects of “parity” rules that force a vertically-integrated input monopolist (VIM) to treat downstream affiliates and competitors alike in terms of price and quality. We find that input-quality parity can lower social welfare when input pricing is unregulated. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111156
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Price capping and peak-load pricing in network industries
Brunekreeft, Gert - 2000
This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490030